Spanish Week 2010

Gravitational waves are a direct consequence of general relativity and should distort spacetime like waves distort the surface of a pond. They are produced when large masses are strongly accelerated...

The Cherenkov effect is a bluish cone light generated by high-energy particles, when they travel through matter with speed greater than the speed of light. This effect is the optical equivalent of a sonic boom, which occurs, for example, when a jet travels with a speed faster than the speed of sound...